From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20091229010028.GA26019@machine> References: <0f48bc7ed3d04248100868a53c5ac7b5@ladd.quanstro.net> <68eb39920912281539y1dce4d6bi21166e5dbc1b89f6@mail.gmail.com> <20091229010028.GA26019@machine> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:13:56 -0700 Message-ID: <68eb39920912281713l7a2ae272y8a4c27721d89e07b@mail.gmail.com> From: Don Bailey To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e6d7e3636e0669047bd3bc99 Subject: Re: [9fans] du and find Topicbox-Message-UUID: b37eee4c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0016e6d7e3636e0669047bd3bc99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To be fair, the correct script on Plan 9 is academic. Just do what gets the job done for you now. Don't go down an academic black hole. These guys have been arguing about `find` since 2002. D On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:00 PM, anonymous wrote: > > While it's true that you'll have misses on tabs in filenames, it's much > more > > rare to have a tab in a filename than it is to have a space, yes? > > > > I don't have spaces too, but correct script should not make any > assumptions. > > There is interesting date on http://swtch.com/plan9history/: > March 23, 1999 allow spaces in file names > > I think it will be better to just disallow whitespaces (spaces and > tabs) in file names. Looks like that idea with using awk was there > before whitespaces allowed, so there was no problem. > > > --0016e6d7e3636e0669047bd3bc99 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To be fair, the correct script on Plan 9 is academic. Just do what gets the= job done for you now. Don't go down an academic black hole. These guys= have been arguing about `find` since 2002.

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On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:00 PM, anonymous <aim0shei@lavabit.com> wrote:
> While it's true that you'll have misses on t= abs in filenames, it's much more
> rare to have a tab in a filename than it is to have a space, yes?
>

I don't have spaces too, but correct script should not make any a= ssumptions.

There is interesting date on http://swtch.com/plan9history/:
March 23, 1999 =A0 allow spaces in file names

I think it will be better to just disallow whitespaces (spaces and
tabs) in file names. Looks like that idea with using awk was there
before whitespaces allowed, so there was no problem.



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